The culture of rat symbolism

Although poor reputation, don't looks attractive, also end up"The mouseCrossing the street, everyone Shouting dozen "eternal infamy, but from the point of view of society, the folk custom and culture, it has already been thoroughly remould oneself, by a marauding pest, evolved with a very spiritual, intelligent and mysterious little creature.

Circulated folk in China as early as in thousands of years ago the so-called "four everybody", "five door" of primitive worship, animal is the fox, weasel, urchin, the fear of psychological reflection of the rats, snakes, ordinary people think, these animals have special spiritual, represent the will of god and the ghosts and gods.Mouse and one list, visible mouse and human life is inextricably intertwined, mouse culture in human nature, in all aspects of daily life unabashedly, rat culture makes rat is becoming more and more cute, more and more mysterious.

Rat first symbolism is spiritual, and includes two aspects of the clever and properties of psychic.

Rat smell sensitive, timid paranoid, vigilance is high, and its body is very smart, the wall the wall, running lines such as fly, and it also has both the other two emergent skills: from tens of meters or hundreds of meters of altitude, the roof attached to the ground, rolled over, a break is like nothing the what to do, never abandon sorrow of life;Although it is not aquatic animals, nor strongswimmingAbility, narrow groove shallow pond is, however, stop it, in order to survive, it can breath underwater drill several metres distance (up to 10 times more than their body length) on their unscathed.So to be killed or drowned rats that was very vain.

People often use "than mice also fine" to describe someone's clever clever, mouse clever to be one species than the standard, the cleverness of it has been a considerable scale, excellent quality as they describe cars will say "than Mercedes Benz", and "is better than the volga".Also, describe a person acted quickly and chronological strain, we also often said he was "as fickle as a mouse."

Folk also think rat channeling, can predict good and evil.Rat is actually born in nature, is longer than the nature, what will happen in nature you likeThe earthquake、The floodLine, drought and locust plague to make certain the reaction is very normal, this is life on earth has a special instinct, only some limited to human knowledge, has yet to reveal its mystery and regularity.On the eve of the tangshan earthquake, people jing was amazed to find mice to jiao flee about the outside, or three or five banded curled up on the road, the street such as relatively empty place, and there are signs that this unknown imply that what.Similar things, in ancient times must be repeated many times, so the mouse into the psychic guardian in human mind.We by the duke of zhou analysis dream interpretation can be documented in the rat.

In life, everyone will dream.My dream will appear a variety of things.If you dream of a rat, is happy is sorrow is a blessing or a curse?They must be: "is a blessing not a curse, a curse."Still and listen to what the king of the ancient Zhou Chaowen says:

If the dream of musk rat, career success.Dream of have a lot of musk rat, difficulties and misfortune to happen.

Dream of the mouseToo much will make enemies.marriedA womanDreamed of hand held domestic mice, toTo have children.Dream of catching mice, will hand in a dishonest friend.Dream to catch mice, will be the enemy's conspiracy theory.Dream of the catCatch mice, is a blessing, the enemy will kill each other, both dead.Dream of dead ratsTo good luck.Dream of have a lot of mice, failure will continue to happen.Dream of mice in their accommodation make hole, home will steal.Men dreamed of mice in bite yourself, will avoid evil.Doctors dreamed of a mouse, can appear on infectious diseases.

Dream of squirrels, hard struggle.Women dream of squirrels, will be separated from her husband.Expulsion of people dream of squirrels, their target must achieve, can finally return to their homeland.Travel will comfort, the enterprise will be successful.Dream of killing a squirrel, writing on the wall, is the disaster happen.Dream to catch squirrel, or put the squirrel in my hand, is good omen, will find a hidden treasure.Dreamed that squirrel bite himself, on the main problem with friends.Farmers' dream of a squirrel, a good harvest in sight.

To sum up the mice to compete with officer, rat bite not income ", "a big mouse Lord has good, main profit the cat to catch mice."

The second mouse symbolism is strong vitality.Are its fertility strong, high survival rate, such as a female rat litters under natural state can be output 5-10 Wolf pups, the most up to 24, only 21 days, during pregnancy mothers in childbirth can be pregnant again that day, baby mice after 30 to 40 days maturity, of which the female to join reproduction.So, mothers can give birth a year around 5000 children, as for the grandchildren, zengzi, great-grandchildren has too much to calculate.According to research, rat matrix contains a unique chemical substances, can stimulate the male mice never fell under the "feet" of it, this is probably one of the reasons for the mice industry will produce a, so will the children in the group of good birth mother dubbed "the mouse embryo" or "the mouse belly", metaphor its fertility strong.

Rat survival rate is high, long life, such as not encountered natural enemy attack or human large put out of action, most can be abetted, demise, and grandchildren, this is other animal can only dream of.

There is a kind of folk organization in Chinese in the past, now has been nicknamed the "rats" and banned it.It is a form of mutual assistance between people, members pay a certain fee, to introduce new members to join us.Due to the number of members, membership dues are considerable, the fee for individual members.Each member has a chance to get the funding, but in between who first after you need in a certain and program or draw lots to decide, its principle is to focus on the social idle funds in a short period of time to let a few lucky members become prosperous first, members in case of emergency urgent need money, can also, at the request of the arbitration by discussing special funding.It is some low-income benefits to the people, but due to the specific operation process, due to be have a lot of money, a lot of power, often have profited, and gradually evolved into a financial exploitation, and of a color clearly underworld gang, has been officially banned by the government, and its benefit, actually have been deposited and bank loans in installment reimbursement, there's no need for the reality.This gang based on the development of the members to join, the more introduced himself is, the more profit, so a lot of people by lobbying other members earn "cash" make a fortune.

Always have this kind of "will" or "club", members of a to night so it went around, or to mobilize others to join, or join a group party, this kind of activity rule and strikingly similar to mice largely nocturnal habits;Members and one becomes two, two become four, four turn eight...Geometric multiplication, the mice with extraordinary fecundity is also very similar, therefore it vividly called "rats."In recent years in China have a popular illegal pyramid selling and fellowship, chain letters, etc., most are old version of "mice".

The third symbolism is delicate small rat, the lowly.The posture of rats born with a pair of small and exquisite, like jumping up and down, cannot be together with the "big" word.The first anthology of poetry in the book of songs in the article, called "fat" is compared the corruption collectors to big mouse, is not to say that I have such a big rat;Ancient books in han yu's poetry gaiden have club mouse, is also a big mouse metaphor:

Duke jing of qi asked this: "to be the most afraid of?"

This smile, seriously said: "clubs hiding in land temple, ran out just to steal to eat.People want to catch, again afraid the implements of the destroyed land temple, offend the earth god of retribution, so helpless with it.Emperor, now there is such a club, may don't shelter their monarch."

It is this rat is inhibited, told duke jing of qi of statecraft.As for the rat of inter-cultural.Together with small, without it, like ShuQieGouDao refers to "street", "old tang book · biographies of Xiao Xi described in the sui dynasty last years social chaos said:" d never since the sui dynasty, yu county, small ShuQieGouDao, which is from tiger."(sui end since there are many, thieves fall in second, cede territory said king heaviest.)

A mouse skill refers to the fact."Xunzi, learning, said:" flying snakes have no feet and fly, the five skills and poor, "literally flying snakes have no feet but can run lines such as fly, the rat is a variety of skills but it is hard to put to good use, the implication is mastering a skill you cast enough, if you don't, have to learn to point introduction to kung fu, even if will also not much more useful.

Other such as "rat" and "rats" and so on has the same meaning, and implied a despised, despise the derogatory sense.Liangzhou Hu Wencai yun3 hate when the three countries, beginning the second person, deliberately said in public "kanto rat desires what is?"(both the kanto dog want to do?In order to express their discontent.(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/ )

In addition, because growing fierce rat teeth, need constant molar to maintain its length, people often use metaphor "rat tooth finches" who love their breath of gossip.